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Jan Gerrit Horstmann is a Researcher at ETH Zürich's Department of Multifunctional Ferroic Materials since October 2022. His work focuses on correlation dynamics in systems with coexisting electronic, magnetic, and structural orders, emphasizing microscopic heterogeneity effects like domains and domain walls. He develops ultrafast imaging techniques to study these phenomena with high spatiotemporal resolution.
He earned his Physics PhD from the University of Göttingen (2021), where his research involved ultrafast low-energy electron diffraction (ULEED) and optical spectroscopy to investigate nonequilibrium structural dynamics in low-dimensional materials. His doctoral work demonstrated coherent control of solid-state phase transitions via phonon mode manipulation.
- Education:
- PhD in Physics, University of Göttingen, 2021
His research interests include ultrafast dynamics, domain engineering, and phase transitions. Notably, he pioneered timed femtosecond laser sequences to control phonon modes and demonstrated metastable phase stabilization in indium wires on silicon surfaces.
- Awards:
- 2023 SNSF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 2022 ETH Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 2021 Born-Franck-Dissertation Award (University of Göttingen)
His publications span 2018–2025, covering topics like charge-density wave dynamics, ferroic domain control, and surface structural transitions. Current projects involve thermal quenching effects and valley-controlled nanoscale switching in multiferroic systems.
